Posted on 01/02/2009 7:45:51 PM PST by fella
Man charged despite girlfriend telling police she framed him BY SCOTT F. DAVIS Northwest Arkansas Times
Posted on Friday, January 2, 2009
A University of Arkansas employee faces charges for recording a teenage girl in the shower even though his girlfriend told police she did it to get him in trouble.
Kevin Dale Robinson, 35, was charged Tuesday with possessing or viewing matter depicting explicit conduct involving a child and video voyeurism.
Robinson is accused on Oct. 6 of possessing nude images of a 16-year-old girl and using a digital camera to secretly record her while she was taking a shower.
Robinson who works as a systems programmer for the UA's information technology services department, told Fayetteville police when he was arrested Nov. 12 that he did not take the video recording of the teenage girl.
He said his longtime girlfriend, Lela Churchwell, took the video herself in an effort to get him in trouble, according to the arrest report. He also produced for police an e-mail from Churchwell sent Oct. 21 in which she admitted to being a pathological liar and setting him up.
Robinson told police the whole incident was concocted by Churchwell because she was jealous of his close relationship with the victim and two other juveniles. Police did not consider his story to be credible or believable and arrested him on probable cause.
On Nov. 13, Churchwell told police that she had recorded the nude shower footage but told the victim and police that Robinson did it to get him in trouble. She said she tried to convince Robinson that he did it when he was drunk.
She also told police she had become pregnant by another man and she planned to blackmail Robinson so he would move out of the house and she could stay there while he paid the mortgage.
Churchwell was arrested on probable cause on charges of video voyeurism, theft of property and filing a false police report.
She was charged on Dec. 12 with second-degree battery. Other possible charges she was arrested on are pending.
In the battery case, Churchwell is accused of striking Robinson in the head with a shovel on Oct. 12 - when police responded to the initial call from the victim about being recorded in the shower.
The victim told police that Churchwell struck Robinson with the shovel after catching him using a digital camera to take shower pictures.
Churchwell told police she was very intoxicated when she smacked Robinson in the head two or three times with the shovel. After the last blow, Robinson "fell over onto the ground like a rag doll," she said, according to the police report.
"Developments in the case" convinced prosecutors to file charges against Robinson even though his girlfriend claims she made up the story, said Mark Booher, 4th Judicial District deputy prosecutor.
"It's a bizarre case," Booher said.
Police reports indicate that Robinson was accused of making numerous comments of a sexual nature to the 16-year-old girl, but he is not accused of any sexual contact with her.
University officials could not be reached over the holiday break to confirm Robinson's continued employment, but his name remained on the UA's online employee directory Wednesday.
The alleged incident did not happen on campus and did not involve any students, according to police reports.
What would you suggest?
1. Toxic ass
2. This ass will get you thrown in Jail.
3. If you can read this you are screwed.
4. This ass belongs to a 16 year wack job psyco, run for your life.
5. All your bases are belong to us.
6. no toque o su muerte.
Was she skinny?
I’m going to vote for #3.
Informative, yet puckish.
charges against Robinson will likely be dropped.
“ They haven’t been dropped as of right now, ” he said Friday afternoon. “ We still want to speak with [the victim ] before we quash all the charges.
"Holy Blazing Saddles, Batman."
The 16 year old isn't the girlfriend. She is the third party allegedly pictured by the girlfriend in an effort to frame the boyfriend.
#1 sounds like a good name for a rock band.
I gathered that from the article. Still, it is very poorly written. Here's my favorite line:
He also produced for police an e-mail from Churchwell sent Oct. 21 in which she admitted to being a pathological liar and setting him up.
The man lives with his girlfriend in a house he owns or they own. The man is also friends, in some capacity that wasn’t clear, with the 16 year old and a couple of other juveniles. What is known is that there was video and photos taken of the 16 year old girl while taking a shower. The guy was initially arrested fro having these in his possession and accused of taken the videos and photos. The girlfriend is now claiming she took the footage the girl to setup the boyfriend. The 16 year old girl is claiming it was the guy that took the footage, not the girlfriend. The shovel massage therapy the girlfriend gave to the boyfriend was induce, claimed by the girlfriend, when she was intoxicated. The 16 year old girl says the shovel massage therapy was induced out of rage of the guy filming here.
Does that make sense? I think it is a messed up situation with truth sprinkled all over everybody involved.
bttt
Send them all to prison and let the inmates sort it out.
"Thank god I never took that overpaying coaching job"
“Will they arrest the police for watching it? Over and Over?,
to make sure there was a crime committed?”
Of course not, their badges shield their souls from being corrupted! Why do you think the badge is usually pinned over their heart? /s
“”Thank god I never took that overpaying coaching job””
It also helps to not live with your girlfriend and not to be a 35 year old professor who is for some weird reason “friendly” with three teenagers, including one that you have been witnessed to make sexual verbal advances on and for some reason find yourself in close vicinity of said teenager taking showers.
Holy Cow! I mistyped a few things in #29. LOL
A man has been accused of a crime. He needs to be hung or castrated now. We don’t need a trial. get the rope. ;0)
She's 16................
By the time I get to the warning label it's gonna be too late!
Why are you concluding that he was a professor? If he were he would have been called a faculty member not an employee at the University.
It appears to me he is in the IT dept. He’s listed as a Systems Admisnistrator here.
http://uits.uark.edu/contact_3902_ENG_HTML.htm
Where do you see Churchwell’s age listed?
The girl filmed is 16.
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